*RAID Alerts & Notifications

The following article is an extract of the MegaRAID Storage Manager software manual. The full manual can be found on the LSI website (http://www.lsi.com/) or click here to go directly to the manual.

Entering or Editing the Sender Email Address and SMTP Server

You can use the Configure Alerts window to enter or edit the sender email address and the SMTP server.

On the Configure Alerts window, click the Mail Server tab. The Mail Server options appear, as shown in the following figure.

Enter a sender’s email address in the Sender email address field, or edit the existing sender email address.
Enter your SMTP server name/IP Address in the SMTP Server field, or edit the existing details.
Clear the Use Default check box to enter the desired port number in the Port field.
Click OK.

Authenticating the SMTP Server

The MegaRAID Storage Manager software supports a SMTP authentication mechanism called Login. This feature provides an extra level of security, while sending an email from the MegaRAID Storage Manager server.

To enter or modify the SMTP server authentication information, perform the following steps:

On the Configure Alerts window, click the Mail Server tab.
If on your SMTP server, the authentication mechanism is enabled and if you want to enable this feature on the MegaRAID Storage Manager software, then you need to select the This Server requires authentication checkbox and enter the authentication details in the corresponding fields (User name and Password). If you do not want to enable this feature on the MegaRAID Storage Manager software or if you know that your SMTP server does not support the Login mechanism, then de-select the This Server requires authentication check box.

NOTEThe This Server requires authentication check box is selected by default.

Enter a user name in the User name field. This step is optional if This Server requires authentication check box is selected.
Enter the password in the Password field.

This step is optional if This Server requires authentication check box is selected.

Click OK.

Adding Email Address of Recipients of Alert Notifications

The Email tab in the Configure Alerts window shows the email addresses of the recipients of the alert notifications. The MegaRAID Storage Manager software sends alert notifications to those email addresses. Use the Configure Alerts window to add or remove email addresses of recipients and to send test messages to recipients that you add.

To add email addresses of recipients of the alert notifications, perform the following steps:

Click the Email tab in the Configure Alerts window.

Enter the email address you want to add in the New recipient email address field.
Click Add.

The new email address appears in the Recipient email addresses field.

Testing Email Addresses of Recipients of Alert Notifications

Use the Email tab in the Configure Alerts window to send test messages to the email addresses that you added for

the recipients of alert notifications.

Click the Email tab on the Configure Alerts window.

The Email section of the window appears

Click an email address in the Recipient email addresses field.
Click Test.
Confirm whether the test message was sent to the email address.

A pop-up message indicates if the test message sent to the email address was successful. If the MegaRAID Storage Manager software cannot send an email message to the email address, an error message appears.